As Before, So Evermore: Celebrating 1,000 Years of Sacred Music at Saint Meinrad Archabbey

This inauguaral concert of the Institute for Sacred Music highlighted the many ways the Saint Meinrad monastic community has both drawn from and contributed to the history of sacred music since our founding in 1854. It featured chants reconstructed from medieval manuscripts held in the Archabbey Library collection, 18th- and 19th-century polyphonic settings from our Swiss motherhouse of Einsiedeln that our European founders would have sung, compositions by our own monks especially since the Second Vatican Council, and some pieces from the larger tradition that anticipated the music heard at Saint Meinrad today.

0:00 Introduction
0:40 Welcome (Br. John Glasenapp OSB)

Advent and Christmastide
3:25 Ad te levavi / To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul (Fr. Columba Kelly adaptation)
6:33 Angelus ad virginem (14th-century English carol)
12:08 O magnum mysterium (Christmas responsory reconstructed from a 13th-century manuscript in the Archabbey Library collection)
15:30 In the ending of the year (music by Br. John Mark Falkenhain, OSB and Brent Stamey; text edited by Fr. Harry Hagen, OSB based on the translation by John Mason Neale)

Ordinary Time
18:50 Deus in loco sancto tuo (introit from an n 11th-century Aquitanian fragment in the Archabbey Library collection)
19:57 I Saw Coming on the Clouds of Heaven (by Fr. Tobias Colgan, OSB)
22:41 Domine Dominus noster quam admirabile (gradual from an n 11th-century Aquitanian fragment in the Archabbey Library collection)

Sanctorale
25:52 Favus distillans (by St. Hildegard of Bingen for St. Ursula)
30:40 Justus ut Palma (introit for the feast of St. Benedict reconstructed from 13th-century German source in the Archabbey Library collection)

33:36 Introduction to the second half (Br. John)

Feasts of Mary
36:50 O Maria, deu maire (late-11th-century vernacular hymn from the abbey of Saint Martial in Limoges based on “Ave maris stella”)
42:47 Hail, Bright Star (by Fr. Tobias Colgan, OSB based on “Ave maris stella”)
45:30 Salve regina, four-part setting from Einsiedeln Abbey

Holy Week and Easter
49:28 Improperium exspectavit (offertory and verses reconstructed from a late-11th-century leaf, currently the oldest manuscript in the Archabbey Library collection)
56:30 Ortorum orientium/Virga Yesse/[Victimae paschali laudes] (polytextual Trecento Italian motet)
58:11 Victimae paschali /Christus ist erstanden (from the Gengenbach Processional in the Archabbey Library collection copied in the early 18th century)

From the Rite of Solemn Profession of Einsiedeln Abbey (1888)
1:01:59 Veni sancte spiritus

Archabbey Website: https://www.saintmeinrad.org
Seminary Website: https://www.saintmeirnad.edu
Linktree https://linktr.ee/saintmeinrad
Smugmug Photos: https://saint-meinrad.smugmug.com/

Facebook   / saintmeinrad  
Instagram   / saintmeinrad  
X   / saintmeinrad  
Pinterest   / saintmeinrad